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The 16 Personality Types: Equivalents & Comparisons

The four temperaments have long been understood as the primary division of personality types. But in the early 1900′s, Carl Gustav Jung would bring further classification to temperaments with sixteen different personality combinations. Thanks to the work of the mother-daughter duo Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers, Jung’s theories would become well known through the Myers Briggs Type Indicator or MBTI. In the late 1900′s, David West Keirsey created the Keirsey Temperament Sorter which expanded upon the MBTI while categorizing each of the 16 personality types under the 4 basic temperaments.

Below you’ll find a table of comparisons and equivalents between some of the main classifications used for the 16 personality types.